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Acts 1:20-22
1599 Geneva Bible
Acts 1:20-22
1599 Geneva Bible
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, (A)Let his habitation be void, and let no man dwell therein: (B)also, Let another take his [a]charge.
21 [b]Wherefore of these men which have companied with us, all the time that the Lord Jesus was [c]conversant among us,
22 Beginning from the baptism of John unto the day that he was taken up [d]from us, must one of them be made a witness with us of his resurrection.
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- Acts 1:20 His office and ministry David wrote these words against Doeg the King’s herdsman: And these words, Shepherd, Sheep, and Flock, are put over to the Church office and ministry, so that the Church and the offices thereof are called by these names.
- Acts 1:21 The Apostles deliberate upon nothing, but first they consult and take advisement by God’s word: and again they do nothing that concerneth and is behoovable for the whole body of the Congregation, without making the Congregation privy unto it.
- Acts 1:21 Word for word, went in and out, which kind of speech betokeneth as much in the Hebrew tongue, as the exercising of a public and painful office, when they speak of such as are in any public office, Deut. 31:2; 1 Chron. 27:1.
- Acts 1:22 From our company.
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